Aobayama Campus extends to new heights
(WorldNews Japan)

On the eve of its 70th anniversary, the Faculty of Agriculture has moved from its aging premises at Amamiya Campus into state-of-the-art facilities at Aobayama Campus. The upgrade is part of a long-term project to create a hub of innovation in new fields of research and to increase academic-industry collaboration. In 1947, two years after 20 percent of Sendai City was destroyed during World War II air raids, the Faculty of Agriculture was established at Tohoku University to help increase food production in the Tohoku Region. The campus was set up at Amamiya in downtown Sendai in 1949, out of existing buildings that had been used by Japan`s former Second High School - a school that had...